The cloud is moving, so are the Lueken's

Patience wants you to know that the cloud is moving, so WE ARE MOVING AGAIN in 3 weeks. Let the packing begin! 

We recently found out that it would be helpful to our friends who need to sell their house if we would move out by Sept. 15th exactly the same day we moved in one year ago! What a blessing to have this year to get to know this dear couple, now our dear friends, whom many in this area know and consider their home a haven as they have a revolving door and hearts so big to welcome all who would enter. Bob & LuAnn have a ministry in Kenya to the poorest of the poor & it has been such a blessing to have their understanding & wisdom and to pray together. We are moving out just as we leave on a several week ministry trip so that they can paint and continue to ready the house to sell. Roger helped by painting their garage and barn this summer & Jon & he lay down new shingles on two large sections of the barn roof.
   
"The Lord orders our stops as well as our steps." George Mueller  

Thank you for your prayers for God to order the days ahead as we pack up our belongings, put them in our storage unit, & head out on or around Sept.15 for a 2-3 week or more ministry trip south so that Jon & Joyce can attend a Community Health Evangelism course at EQUIP International in Marion, NC 9/23-28. Roger & I will be going along to care for Patience so that Joyce can attend. 

Before & after the course we will be visiting friends & family in PA, VA, NC, SC, TN, so they can meet Joyce & Patience & learn how God is equipping Jon & Joyce, & all of us.  There is also opening up an opportunity to meet with those at Heart Cry Missionary Society in VA & we look forward to that connection. We were told by a pastor we met in March that this ministry, founded by Paul Washer, has pastors trained and ready to go overseas to disciple the  leaders of a ministry so that they are equipped to disciple others. This would be a great source of support and training for Jonathan in sharing the Gospel & discipleship training. God knows His reasons for the connection.

We trust that when we return from this trip that we will know where the cloud has settled us.

I was telling Joyce about a time when the boys were little that we were encouraged by the scriptures in Exodus when Israel moved when the cloud moved and settled when the cloud stopped. Then someone I never met but had prayed fro years ago sent me this message, Wow!!!

"Exodus 13:21 "By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night."

1 Corinthians 10 reveals our unshakable foundation in Christ where it tells what happened in Exodus 13. "All of them ate the same spiritual food and drank from the spiritual Rock that traveled with them, and that rock was CHRIST!"
Please read 1 Corinthians 10 today in different translations to understand what God is doing in your life. As I send this I'm praying for you."

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PLEASE PRAY for God's provision for this course, this trip & for God's provision of housing & the finances needed, as well as, furnishings (we have not needed beds & kitchen furniture anyplace we've lived since 2006, &  we have not needed living room furniture since early 2016) 
PRAYing also that his provision would include an answer to prayers long prayed that Jon & Joyce would get a small place to live alone as a family for the first time.

PRAY for Joyce, she is not use to or fond of traveling hours in the car, and Patience is not found of the car seat except when she's sleeping. In addition, Joyce is not accustom to moving quite so often and it causes some insecurity. They have moved several times since their marriage in 2016.

PRAY that the Lord provides for us in such a way that she and others see how very faithful He IS as He has been so many times in our past. 

"If the Cloud stayed above the Tabernacle two days, a month, or a year, that is how long the people of Israel stayed; but as soon as it moved, they moved. So it was that they camped or traveled at the command of the Lord..."   Numbers 9:22-23

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 "FAITH IN A FAITHFUL GOD WILL STRETCH US TO THE LIMITS 

OF OUR PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL, INTELLECTUAL, 
& SPIRITUAL BEINGS, 

BUT THE STRETCHING WILL SERVE ONLY TO EXPAND OUR CAPACITY 

TO KNOW GOD, & IN THE KNOWING TO DISCOVER 

THE VAST POTENTIAL OF A LIFE LIVED BY FAITH."

Expanding our capacity to know God as we cling to Him,

  Roger & Patty Lueken, Jon & Joyce & Patience

Patty (774) 254-4336 Roger (774) 210-2800 Jon (774) 203-8308 

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